Aim and Scope
„Res Facta Nova” concentrates on publishing articles concerning contemporary music compositions (from Poland and abroad), as well as texts on issues such as the semiotics, aesthetics, philosophy, sociology and psychology of music, with particular focus on contemporary art. Alongside original scholarly articles the journal also publishes translations of significant foreign texts on musicology that have attracted international discussions, as well as polemical reviews.
From the year 2000 the journal has been including publications in English, and articles by foreign authors writing on Polish contemporary music play an important role among them.
Anti-plagiarism measures
In order to minimize the risk of plagiarism, since 2022 the editorial board has been using the iThenticate plagiarism detection software.
Open Access Policy
This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely ovailable without charge to the user or his/her institution. By submitting their text, the authors agree that all Res Facta Nova texts are published in accordance with the Open Access clause: they undergo a full scientific review process, are made available free of charge on the PRESSto platform, can be downloaded free of charge from the PRESSto platform and may be used under a Creative Commons user licence Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Ghostwriting
In order to minimize the phenomena of “ghostwriting” and “guest authorship” each author of the text published in Res Facta Nova (not applicable to the authors of reprinted or translated texts) will have to sign the following declaration.
Publication Ethics
Res Facta Nova follows Core practices promoted by the Committee of Publication Ethics. The journal also adheres to the COPE Guidelines.
Editorial guidelines
The Editorial Board kindly asks the Authors to submit their papers in accordance with the editorial guidelines. The articles submitted to the editorial board of Res Facta Nova should include:
1. ORCID number of the author
2. affiliation of the author
3. summary in English (up to 250 words)
4. keywords in English (5-7 keywords)
5. bibliography
Review procedure:
Res Facta Nova adheres to a double-blind peer-reviewing policy:
1. The identities (and affiliations) of the authors and reviewers are concealed from each other.
2. Data indicating the author's identity are removed from the text sent for review.
3. Two independent reviewers who have no conflict of interest with the author are appointed to evaluate each article.
4. A uniform review form is obligatory (in Polish or English).
5. The review concludes with an unambiguous conclusion as to whether the article can be published or rejected.
6. The condition for the publication of the text is obtaining two positive reviews.
Reviewer Form
History
he history of Res Facta (Nova) reaches back to 1967. The journal’s leading idea was to offer Polish readers the most important and exceptional texts on contemporary ideas about music in their broadest sense, referring to the traditions of European and non-European cultures. Adhering to this principle, the founders and editors were aware of the growing need to acquaint the Polish musicological community (as well as the wider public) with what was being published and widely discussed outside Poland. It was in the columns of Res Facta and Res Facta Nova (from 1994) that the outstanding composers, musicologists, critics and philosophers who were to influence the future generations of native artists and intellectuals made their first appearance in Poland. They included John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, Witold Lutosławski, Carl Dahlhaus, Paul Ricoeur, Hans Georg Gadamer, Theodor Adorno, and now Karol Berger, Reinhold Brinkmann, Eero Tarasti, Gérard Grisey, Paweł Szymański and Paweł Mykietyn.
After 1989, with the arrival of Maciej Jabłoński as editor, the journal was published as Res Facta Nova in Poznań, first by Ars Nova, and from its second issue (in 1997) by Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk [the Poznań Society of Friends of Learning]. Since 2016 the journal has been published by its original publisher, Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne. In 2021 it was awarded 40 points in the index of academic journals of the Minister of Science and Higher Education. Since 2010 its academic partner has been the Institute of Musicology of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.
The journal’s editors-in-chief in consecutive order:
Michał Bristiger (1967-2010)
Marcin Gmys (2010-2020)
Ewa Schreiber (2020)